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NO.

China is NOT merely acting like anyone else in regards to international territories.

China very aggressively uses every social, political and military means to change the maps in their favor and extend their political control. This ranges from building military bases by expanding islands in international waters and putting air bases on it and threatening others, to denying that they invaded Tibet, to getting foreigners fired for liking a tweet that might hint that Taiwan is independent.

The US regularly needs to put naval vessels & aircraft in harm's way to frequently reassert Freedom Of Navigation in international waters -- the potential harm is from China's false assertion that these are Chinese territorial waters. This needs to be done ONLY against China in this region -- no other players try to pull the same nonsense.

Please stop trying to act as if China is not an outlier in this regard. Their egregious and even bellicose behavior needs to be called out and halted before it gets more violent. This only serves to normalize and encourage China's egregious behavior.

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Please don't take HN discussions into nationalistic flamewar. As the guidelines say, "Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

(They also ask you not to use allcaps for emphasis, since that's basically yelling.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html